How Income Inequality Hurts the Economy (debt)

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How Inequality Hurts the Economy - BusinessWeek (http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/how-inequality-hurts-the-economy-11162011.html - broken link)

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"When such countries are hit by external shocks, they often stumble into gridlock rather than agree to tough policies needed to keep growth alive." From the article.

We need to address the way to high total debt in the US. How it is done doesn't really matter. But until the debt comes down we aren't going anywhere economically. Those are the tough policies that we aren't even talking about.